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HACKBERRY SEEDS

Age: 54 to 37 million years

Period: Eocene

Location: Hart Mountains, North Central Wyoming, USA
This tree, a member of the genus Celtis, grows in temperate

climates.
The hackberry seeds pictured here, roughly 50 million years old are some of the proofs that evo-
lution never occurred. This plant has always existed as the hackberry and, like all other plant

species, it has never gone through any intermediate stages. It is not descended from any other
plant, and never developed into any other plant.

In fact, evolutionists are well aware that there are no intermediate form fossils they can point to
as evidence of plants' supposed evolution. George Gaylord Simpson, one of the founders of neo-
Darwinism, states this fact thus:

"This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to mammals, but is an almost universal phe-
nomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists. It is true of almost all classes of animals, both ver-
tebrate and invertebrate. . . it is true of the classes, and of the major animal phyla, and it is apparently

also true of analogous categories of plants." (George G. Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution, New
York: Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 105, 107) (emphasis added)

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